- Grete Berger had been living in Florence since 1929. In August 1940, she was deported to San Donato Val Comino (FR) as part of the confino libero program of the fascist government. There she stayed with 28 other interned people until April 1944 when she was deported Auschwitz. Grete Berger divorced her first husband.
- She was known as Grete Berger - Reich when arrested by the Germans in 1944. Its presumed that she died shortly after her Deportation to a KZ in April 1944.
- The actress Grete Berger got an acting education and afterwards she made her stage debut in 1903 when she got her first engagement in Berlin.
- She became known as the female lead of the Comtess Margit Schwarzenberg in the 1913 Stellan Rye and Paul Wegener-directed horror film The Student of Prague. Stellan Rye would also cast her in several other of his films, including several other horror films penned by Berger's then-romantic partner Hanns Heinz Ewers.
- In 1915 she dedicated to the theater again exclusively, only in 1921 she returned to the film business where she took part again in some important German silent movies.
- She began her education under acting teacher Rosa Roth in Vienna.
- She made her film debut with the classic "Der Student von Prag" (1913). The movie went into history because of Paul Wegeners appearance in a double role in the same scene.
- Grete Berger was born Margarethe Berg into a Jewish family in Austrian Silesia.
- Grete Berger was last mentioned in the Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch in 1933, afterwards her career came to an end.
- In 1911 she performed with Reinhardt's ensemble in Sophocles's Oedipus Rex on guest tours of Prague and St. Petersburg. Other notable roles in Berlin included Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the title role of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's drama Elektra, Désirée in Richard Beer-Hofmann's The Count of Charolais, Marikke in Hermann Sudermann's Johannisfeuer, and Rahel in Franz Grillparzer's The Jewess of Toledo.
- When she also impersonated many roles in classic plays on stage she joined the film business in 1913.
- She was transferred in 1944 to the Jewish collection and transit camp Fossoli near Carpi. There she met her longtime colleague from Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater German Theater, Jacob Feldhammer.
- In 1904 she played for Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater Berlin where she soon became established. Later she also went on tour to St. Petersburg and Prague.
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